Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Russian speakers in the Baltics
bySince Russia invaded Ukraine, the war has unified Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian societies while Russian speakers in these countries remain divided. During the early…
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the war has unified Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian societies while Russian speakers in these countries remain divided. During the early…
Mikhail Romanov is a father, husband, and a 31-year-old Russian Army soldier. This Spring he broke into a residential house near Kyiv, killed the…
When Swedish television broadcast a film based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novella A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the seventies, Finland shut…
Estonia’s student resistance movement built a British NATO base in Estonia in 1982. And, of course, they wrote a song about it. This week,…
The October local elections marked a transformation in Estonian politics. The Center Party, which traditionally dominated the major cities’ politics, lost a significant vote…
A self-declared candidate for the upcoming Estonian Presidential election, Tarmo Soomere, has suggested that Estonia’s security chief should call his Russian colleague on an…
Early 19th Century Russian Exploration In the year 1800, Europe had been drawn into the Napoleonic wars, and Russia’s Czar Paul I still had…
The Baltic Federation in Canada, representing the interests of Canadians of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian heritage supports a parliamentary petition calling on the Canadian…
The world has followed closely the attempted assassination via poisoning, recent arrest, and now conviction of Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny. With thousands of…
A lecture by Marcus Kolga for the Estonian Diaspora Museum VEMU on Jazz, Punk, Rock & Roll and Youth Culture in the Soviet Union.